The meaning of a painted portrait and even its subject may be far more complex than expected, Tamar Garb reveals in this book. She charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century, showing how these paintings illuminate evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the century. The author builds the discussion around six canonic works by Ingres, Manet, Cassatt, C???zanne, Picasso, ...
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The meaning of a painted portrait and even its subject may be far more complex than expected, Tamar Garb reveals in this book. She charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century, showing how these paintings illuminate evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the century. The author builds the discussion around six canonic works by Ingres, Manet, Cassatt, C???zanne, Picasso, and Matisse, beginning with Ingres's idealized portrait of Mme de Sennones and ending with Matisse's elegiac last portrait of his wife. During the hundred years that separate these works, the female portrait went from being the ideal genre for the expression of painting's capacity to describe and embellish "nature," to the prime locus of its refusal to do so. Picasso's Cubism, and specifically Ma Jolie , provides the fulcrum of this shift.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Maroon cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto [9.5" x 11.25"], illustrated in color and b&w. Book has mild rubbing to boards, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ has hint of shelfwear.
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VG/VG As new. Maroon cloth with gold lettering; black dj with color illustration and white lettering; 276 pp. with 232 color and bw illustrations. Central to the book is the theme of make up, the cosmetic application of paint to the surface of the skin which is analagous to the act of painting itself. The author builds the discussion around individual paintings by Ingres, Manet, Cassatt, Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse, beginning with Ingres's idealized portrait of Madame de Senonnes and ending with Matisse's elegaic last portrait of his wife. "Painted portraits are conventionally thought to present accurate representations of their sitters, whose identity and likeness are captured on canvas. This unique hook demonstrates that portraits as pictures are much more complicated than this. Focusing on the painting of female sitters, The Painted Face deals with the stories and fantasies that inform the viewing of portraits, the historical conventions and social situations that affect their appearance and the dehales and discussions that they have generated over time."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Fictions of femininity in the case of Ingres's portrait of Madame de Senonnes--Framing femininity in Manet's portrait of Mlle E.G. --Blank mourning: portraiture and separation--Touching sexual difference: Madame Cézanne in a red dress--The portrait in pieces: Cubism's corpus--The lost subject of portraiture: Matisse's Portrait of 1913.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Like New. Size: 12x9x0; Hardcover and dust jacket. Small tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Book 276 pages, numerous illustrations, most in color, notes, photo credits, index; 4to, brown boards. Fine; dust jacket very good+, short tear top of spine.
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As new in as new jacket. Yale University Press, c2007. 276pp., index, notes, color illustrations throughout. 4to. As new unread hardcover in as new d/j.
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